Originally published at: State Lawmakers Are Getting Arrested at Detention Centers and Yelling at Masked ICE Agents. Good. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. This week, two moments revealed the front lines of America’s immigration fight. In New York, 11 state legislators were among more than a dozen elected officials arrested after demanding entry to overcrowded Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention cells at 26 Federal Plaza.…
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It probably won’t be long before Trump’s retribution campaign overwhelms his entire administration. It’s actually hard to go after nearly everyone who says something you don’t like in a country with over 300 million people.
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Tell that to the Chinese and Russians.
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China and Russia have always been authoritarian nations. The ability to crush any and all dissent has been baked into both their political systems for centuries.
It’s a lot harder to take over a government that never had such instruments in place and try to implement them. Dissent will snowball here since Trump will tend to make more enemies each time he tries to go after one. The math doesn’t look good for him in the long run.
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Nice to see my State (Washington) mentioned positively so many times in the fight against tyranny.
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In addition to throwing a wrench into President Miller Tr*mp’s deportation machine it is also smart politics. The best way to motivate D voters is to fight back. Centrism or Republican light gets you nothing.
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No resistence is futile. Resist - big, little, in between.
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The math doesn’t look good for him in the long run.
Do I need to quote John Maynard Keynes?
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White supremacy at work here! Fat, bullet-headed pig, who is likely unqualified for any job that requires thinking.
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just a workin’ stiff… like many of his age… ain’t got no education… and he’s pissed at everybody cuz he knows his shitty life is not about to get any better ever!
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We used to do exactly that, until the current gang of traitors kneecapped the Voice of America and all the other pro-democracy communications channels we had built over the decades.
But the patient’s dictator buddies didn’t like them, so they had to go.
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In totalitarian regimes, authoritarians rely on “self policing” to keep people in line. The more courage we have to stand up and speak out en masse, the more success we will have in fighting back. It’s harder to go after everyone.
Or as Benjamin Franklin allegedly said following the signing of the Declaration of Independence: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
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our atty.gen. announced a web site where you can tattle on your family and neighbours about ‘political violence’…in FLORIDA…
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LOL its been along time since i heard those words…its good to see that some youngsters are beginning to realize that it is their future that is being compromised…it is incredible that i am living the past. all over again.never thought it was possible. however, if i can survive NIXON etc., they can get thro’ the current horse-hockey… be strong and do not bend.
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